Dr. Ana Silva (confirmed) Affiliation: FCT-UNL, Portugal Title: Micronized Layer-by-Layer nanovehicles for siRNA pulmonary delivery: a novel approach for lung cancer therapy

Dr. Viviane Pilla (confirmed) Affiliation: Institute of Physics, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil Title: Thermo-Optical Characterization of CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots Embedded in GPTS/TEOS-derived Organic/Silica Hybrid Colloids: Gelation Kinetics

Dr. Maria Inês Bruno Tavares (confirmed)
Affiliation:	IMA-UFRJ, Brazil
Title:	The use of NMR relaxometry in nanomaterials containing drugs.

Dr. Michael. A. Morris (confirmed) Affiliation: University College Cork, IrelandCRANN and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin and Tyndall National Institute Title: Preparing complex materials as nanoparticle arrays on substrates Dr. Grace C. Cole (confirmed) Affiliation: Queen’s University of Belfast. Belfast Title: Construction of a DNA vaccine in a Microneedle Patch Dr. Ahmad Jabbarzadeh (confirmed) Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Australia Title: Computational Studies in Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials Dr. Andrzej Kudelski (confirmed) Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Warsaw Universit-POLAND Title: Plasmon-driven synthesis of highly SERS-active silver nanostructures

Dr. Branka Kaludjerovic (confirmed) Affiliation: INN “Vinca”, Mater. Sci. Dpt.-Belgrade-Servia Title: Nanoporous carbonaceous material obtained by hydrothermal carbonization process

Dr. Mark Platt (confirmed) Affiliation: Loughborough University, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough, Leicestershire Title: Aptamers and their use in Resistive Pulse Sensors.

Dr. Dunlop, Iain E (confirmed) Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials- Imperial college LONDON Title: Nanoscale spatial effects in immune cell signaling

Dr. Marinella Striccoti (confirmed)
Affiliation:	CNR-IPCF Division of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy
Title:	Ultrafast carrier dynamics in nanocrystal based materials for energy conversion

Dr. Elisa Mele (confirmed) Affiliation: Department of Materials of Loughborough University (UK) Title: Bioactive nanofibrous systems based on natural materials for wound care

Dr. Hangrong Chen (confirmed) Affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dingxi Road. Title: Hollow mesoporous nanoparticles for tumor theranostic application

Dr. Montserrat Gomez (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Université de Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier
Title:	GLYCEROL AS INNOVATIVE MEDIUM FOR IMMOBILIZATION OF METAL NANOCATALYSTS

Dr. Mei-Chee Tan (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Singapore University of Technology and Design
Title:	Infrared-Emitting Rare Earth Doped Nanocomposites For Applications in Optical Devices and Biomedical

Dr. Byeong-Kyu Lee  (confirmed)
Affiliation:	University of Ulsan, South Korea
Title:	Evaluated adsorption ability of Fe-nano zeolite for removal of Cd (II) from aqueous solution

Dr. Hideki Masuda (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Title:	Preparation of Monodisperse Nanoparticles Based on Membrane Emulsification Using Highly Ordered Anodic Porous Alumina

Dr. Nekane Guarrotxena(confirmed) Affiliation:  Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain Title: Plasmonic SERS beads for multiplex protein sensing.

Dr. Seiji Sakai (confirmed) Affiliation: Advanced Science Research Center,Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan Title: Graphene- and atomic layer material-based hybrid structures for spintronic applications

Dr. Vladimir Popok (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg University, Denmark
Title:	Silver clusters as nanoplasmonic transducers for biosensors

Dr. Susana Piçarra Gonçalves (confirmed) Affiliation: Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal Title: May polymer emulsions be designed to compete with solvent-borne formulations in paints?

Dr. Carole Perry (confirmed) Affiliation: Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK Title: Silica-biomolecule and silica-cell interactions

Dr. Andrew Pratt (confirmed) Affiliation: Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York Title: Engineering strain in Fe/Fe-oxide nanoparticles for biomedical applications

Dr. Thierry Belmonte (confirmed) Affiliation: Institut Jean Lamour, Département CP2S, CNRS – Université Lorraine, France Title: Plasma-synthesized nano-oxides: how driving instabilities

Dr. Sébastien Livi (confirmed) Affiliation: Université de Lyon, INSA Lyon, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France Title: Ionic liquids as surfactant of layered silicates to prepare polymer/clay nanocomposites

Dr. Michael Maas (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Keramische Werkstoffe und Bauteile / Advanced Ceramics, Universität Bremen, Bremen
Title:	Nanoparticle-Assembled Multifunctional Nanocapsules.

Dr. Frédéric MAILLARD (confirmed)
Affiliation:	CNRS,LEPMI, Grenoble, France.
Title:	Design and Optimization of Hollow Pt-Ni Nanostructures for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Dr. Andrey Klymchenko (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Université de Strasbourg, Faculté de Pharmacie, France.
Title:	Responsive fluorescent organic nanoparticles: design, controlled switching and bioimaging applications

Dr. Friedrich Temps (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Olshausenstr., Germany
Title:	Femtosecond Time-Resolved Photoswitching Dynamics of Azobenzenes on Gold Nanoparticles

Dr. Alexandre Gélabert (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Paris Diderot University (France)
Title:	Environmental fate of engineered nanoparticles: impact of the mineral/biofilm/solution interface

Dr. Safi Jradi (confirmed) Affiliation: Institut Charles Delaunay, Université de Technologie de Troyes, FRANCE Title: A new approach of near-field thermal imaging of Plasmonic Nanoparticules by nanoscale polymerization

Dr. Louise Bradley (confirmed) Affiliation: School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Title: Enhanced resonance energy transfer via plasmonic structures

Dr. Hongbo Zhang (confirmed) Affiliation: Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Finland Title: Droplet Based Microfluidics for Drug Delivery Applications

Dr. Alexander Kros (confirmed) Affiliation: Leiden University (Netherlands) Title: Targeted Cytochrome-C delivery to live cells using lipid-coated mesoporous silica nanoparticles

Dr. Laura Rodriguez Lorenzo (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Adolphe Merkle Institute, Université de Fribourg, Fribourg
Title:	Design of Silica-coated Silver/Gold Nanostars for SERS-based Imaging of Softand Hardwood.

Dr. Yann Battie (confirmed) Affiliation: LCP-A2MC, Université de Lorraine, Metz Title: A new approach based on effective medium theory to determine the morphological characteristics of silver and gold colloIdal nanoparticles from their optical responses

Dr. Jurriaan Huskens (confirmed) Affiliation: University of Twente, The Netherlands Title: Self-assembled supramolecular nanoparticles

Dr. Jatindra Kumar Rath (confirmed) Affiliation: Manager Utrecht University Lab. at HTC, The Netherlands Title: Potential of silicon quantum dots in solar cells applications

Dr. Manuel Rodrigues Gonçalves (confirmed) Affiliation: Ulm University, Institute of Experimental Physics, Albert-Einstein-Allee, Germany Title: Routes of fabrication of plasmonic nanostructures presenting high polarization sensitivity and Fano resonances

Dr. Darja Lisjak (confirmed) Affiliation: Department for Materials Synthesis, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Title: Kinetics of the dissolution of upconverting AYF4:Yb,Tm (A = Na or K) nanoparticles in water

Dr. Elisabete Oliveira Marques (confirmed) Affiliation: BIOSCOPE GROUP, UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal Title: Luminescent Nanoparticles for protein screening and imaging

Dr. Adina Arvinte (confirmed) Affiliation: Advanced Research Center for Bionanoconjugates and Biopolymers, “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, IASI, ROMANIA Title: Optimization of electrochemically deposited bimetallic Ni-Co onto carbonaceous materials for the glucose detection

Dr. Paolo Saccardo (confirmed) Affiliation: Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB), Protein Production Platform (PPP), Biomedical Research Networking center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) Title: Development of nano-scale protein complexes for nanobiotechnological applications.

Dr. Tsugio Sato (confirmed) Affiliation: Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan Title: Synthesis of morphology controlled metal oxide crystals for multifunctional cosmetic application

Dr. Sophie Hermans (confirmed) Affiliation: Universite catholique de Louvain, Institut IMCN, Belgium. Title: Molecular strategies to prepare heterometallic nanoparticles supported on nano-carbons

Dr. Dorota Neugebauer (confirmed) Affiliation: Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, Gliwice, POLAND Title: Star and graft copolymers as drug nanocarriers

Dr. Martina Gerken (confirmed) Affiliation: Institut für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Arbeitsgruppe Integrierte Systeme und Photonik, Technische Fakultät der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany Title: Nanostructured dielectric surfaces for label-free biosensing.

Dr. David Duday (confirmed) Affiliation: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) Title: Controlling organized self-assembly of nanoparticles for nanospectroscopy

Dr. Han Byungchan (confirmed) Affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Title: First principles-based computational design of multifunctional nanomaterials for energy and mechanical devices

Dr. Alma Gabriela Palestino Escobedo (confirmed) Affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, México Title: Controlled growth of Gd2O2S:Ln3+ based nanostructures: A study of their optical properties and biological response.

Dr. Srivani Veeranarayanan (confirmed) Affiliation: Toyo University, Japan Title: Fingerprinting In Vivo Protein Coronation On Nanoparticle Surface: Detailed Analysis of Physiological Fate Of Theranostic Carbon Nanohorns.

Dr. M. Sheikh Mohamed (confirmed) Affiliation: Bio Nano Electronics Research Centre, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama, 350-8585 Japan. Title: A Dual Targeted Solid/Lipid Nanoformulation with a Plant Toxin as Therapeutic Agent for a Pragmatic Approach Towards Anti-Glioma Therapy.

Dr. Mitsuharu Chisaka (confirmed) Affiliation: Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Hirosaki University, Japan Title: Nano-Titanium Oxynitride Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acidic Media

Dr. Kok-Chong Yong (confirmed) Affiliation: Malaysian Rubber Board, Malaysia Title: Novel Elastomeric Composite based on Nano-Sized Polyaniline Dodecylbenzenesulfonate (PAni.DBSA) for Corrosion Inhibition of Carbon Steel.

Dr. Thomas Prevenslik (confirmed) Affiliation: QED Radiations, CHINA Title: QED: The fourth Mode of Heat Transfer?

Dr. Gianvito Vilé (confirmed) Affiliation: Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Title: Novel hybrid and 0D nanocatalysts for the selective hydrogenation of alkynes and nitroarenes in flow mode

Dr. Eléna Ishow (confirmed)
Affiliation:	University of Nantes, CEISAM-CNRS, Nantes, France
Title:	Ultra-Sensitive Hybrid Magnetofluorescent Nanoassemblies for Cell Labeling.

Dr. James B. Delehanty (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Center for Bio/Molecular Science & Engineering, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC USA
Title:	Design and Implementation of Actuatable Nanoparticle Constructs:Understanding the Nanoparticle:Cell Interface.

Dr. Nermin Seda Kehr (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Westfälische Wilhelms-University of Münster, Germany
Title:	Self-assembled monolayers and nanocomposite hydrogels of functional porous nanomaterials

Dr. Bilal Gökce (confirmed)
Affiliation:	University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Title:	Transparent nanostrand-polymer composites by connecting-coarsening assembly.

Dr. Masaya Shigeta (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Joining and Welding Research Institute, Osaka University, Japan
Title:	Computational study on collective growth of silicide nanoparticles under a thermal plasma condition

Dr. Yury V. Kolenko (confirmed) Affiliation: International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal Title: Control of Nanoparticle Structure and Magnetism Using Doping

Dr. Utkur Mirsaidov (confirmed) Affiliation: Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore Title: Intermolecular Forces Guide Nanoparticle Assembly.

Dr. Chris Whiteley (confirmed) Affiliation: Rhodes University, South Africa Title: Medical Nanotechnology: Influence of silver nanoparticles on triosephosphateisomerase from both human and malarial parasite.

Dr. Byung Doo Chin (confirmed)
Affiliation:	Dankook University, Korea
Title:	Nanoparticles and Arrays for Surface Plasmon Resonance Effects: a pathway to High Efficiency Organic Light-Emitting Diode

Dr. César A. T. Laia (confirmed) Affiliation: LAQV-REQUIMTE, Faculty of Sciences and Technology. New University of Lisbon. Portugal Title: Development of nanoporous electrochromic devices

Dr. HongSeok Kang (confirmed) Affiliation: Jeonju University (South-Korea) Title: Electronic Structures of Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials: Inorganic to Organometallic Materials Recently Synthesized

Dr. Sónia Carabineiro (confirmed) Affiliation: Universidade do Porto (Portugal) Title: Nitrous oxide decomposition catalysed by supported gold nanoparticles

Dr. Alexandra Mocanu (confirmed) Affiliation: University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania) Title: CdSe (quantum dots)-Graphene Oxide system for thiophene polymerization: A new strategy, a new material

Dr. Yoon-Bong Hahn (confirmed) Affiliation: School of Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering-Chonbuk National University, Korea Title: Comprehensive biosensor for simultaneous detection of glucose, cholesterol and urea with integrated ZnO nanorods field-effect transistors array

Dr. Igor L. Medintz (confirmed) Affiliation: Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Title: Understanding Relationships Between Quantum Dots and Cytotoxicity Using Data Mining and Meta-Analysis.